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Tangible achievements made by Pastor Evan Mawarire, Promise Mkhwananzi, Patson & Itai Dzamara, Linda Masarira and other braves o
25 Sep 2016 at 12:38hrs | Views
Nomazulu Thata
"Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, "Get the hell out of my way, I've got things to do." from unknown poet.
It is time we took stock: what our new revolution has achieved so far. In today' Bulawayo 24 social media, I read three articles written in detail about Pastor Mawarire. One reads: "Mawarire a shame, Mugabe" the other one reads: "This #Flag plot goes up in smoke" the other reads: Mawarire left Zimbabwe under hard-to understand circumstances" on the same page, same day here is a young and dynamic revolutionary written in details. If he was of insignificance nobody would give him such an audience in our daily news.
If there is one person who should be applauded for his bravery to stand against the government of Robert Mugabe and shake it to the core, this earthquake kind scenario, a government that has farted several times because of fear at the mere mention of his name Pastor Mawarire, it is indeed Pastor Mawarire, it is Promise Mkhwananzi, it is Stern Zvorwadza, it is Patson & Itai Dzamara, and indeed the good Lady, our Meme, our mother Zimbabwe: Linda Masarira who is still languishing in prison for sixty straight days. She has to be imprisoned because of the power she resonates and the government is farting scared of her, scared of the power of this woman called Linda.
We need to take stock of what has been achieved in this fresh revolution by the brave people on the ground and we give thanks for the change that they have started, it will never stop until we get our freedom. How long it will take, should not be the issue but that change has been ignited, that it has started is our blessing, we have been given the strength the gut to dare it, with all the brutal consequences it entails. The politics of Zimbabwe has changed it will never be the same until the masses get what they want: freedom from oppression of blacks by blacks.
Firstly, it was Stern Zvorwadza who staged a demonstration inside Rainbow Towers, was sent to remand prison, was beaten several times; he went back to the hotel again without fear of brutal assaults on him, demanded the evacuation of VP Phelekezela Mphoko; he must vacate the hotel where he has been squatting for more than 500 days on the row fleecing the treasury US$ 1000.00 a day. Yes we can proudly say that the pressure that Comrade Stern Zvorwadza put on the government was wholly effective, and indeed the VP himself was shamed to the extent of leaving the hotel at once. He left the hotel Sheraton in absolute shame and disgrace.
Thank you Stern Zvorwadza for you absolute courage that brought change to a lunatic asylum kind of lifestyle at the detriment of the most vulnerable in the country. Here is some irresponsible man made politician, is father and grand-father but cannot empathize with the country-wide poverty experienced in the land, instead he thinks about himself and his immediate family, goes on to distribute chickens to chosen ones as his empowerment program for Mathebeleland! My foot!
Then after Pastor Ewan Mawarire staged a shut down that was successful followed by many others country-wide. This action call coincided with the non payment of civil servants. Revolution are always a combination of many social dissatisfactions in the society, all those ills combined gave a scare on the government, the government responded by paying the civil servants earlier than the stipulated time frames previously given. Instead of being ashamed of themselves, they went on to imprison Pastor Mawarire on fabricated charges that failed to realize a genuine court case. He was set free because the government was scared of the dire consequences of what would happen if he was sent to prison. Pastor Mawarire removed fear from the peoples of Zimbabwe. Hatichatya zvemene.
This #Flag movement is now a global movement for all. Many citizens are talking all their frustration with our Zimbabwean flag flung on their necks, using their voices through the power of the media to send their voices to all citizens at home and in transition. Citizens all over the world have found their voice to talk about the ills of the Zanu PF government without fear. Those voices have become one collective voice that is saying enough is enough: #Hatichatya, #Asisesabi #Tajamuka Asikijiki!
We thank Pastor Mawarire for removing fear in our lives and we begin to talk, we have begun to act because someone removed that fear that has kept us in a trance for 36 years in a row. The peoples of all ethnic groups in Zimbabwe will indeed come together and find one another as they have identified the devil in the making that was hidden in "tribalism." Tribalism has been a weapon of repression by Zanu since independence. Both peoples, lucky enough, have realised that all ethnic groupings are casualties of Zanu PF. Tribalism was used for a long time as cover and if we are not careful, it this very tribalism that will devour our new dawn of independence from the black rule, repressive rule, brutal and shameless in its dealings and lootings.
Thirdly, thanks to so many people, home and abroad in the Diaspora who spoke to the money lending countries never to extend financial AID to current Zimbabwe government until conditions related to reforms are implemented. Only then can a new dispensation a new Zimbabwe government find the financial assistance on realistic terms. We feared that the very AID will be looted as the government is aware of the fact that its game-over with them, time is up for Zanu PF. They were sincerely banking on that bailout to loot for the last time and run away with packages of cash to sustain them in their hideouts.
In Bulawayo24 of today 25th September, Finance Minister was quoted as saying: "Zimbabwe must now stand on its own." This is an admission that the bailout was declined by the all money lenders. Instead they put conditions attached to bailing out the regime: "please reform economically, political, electoral etc. We thank the people of Zimbabwe and all pressure groups that worked hard to make this appeal on lender institutions and has been a grand success. We saw too the power of demonstration that was staged by Zimbabweans living in the UK, how they went to demonstrate at number 10 Downing Street and successfully sent a petition to the new British Prime Minister Ms. Teresa May. We say thank you to Mr. Elliot Pfebve the MDC-T representative in the UK branch for his sterling contribution to highlight our cause.
Dear Zimbabweans, we have achieved a lot indeed, we should be grateful about what has been possible under those most brutal circumstances. Pastor Mawarire was right inside the General Assembly and gave in his petition on our behalf. He is working day and night silently but effectively. We should remember too that our struggle for freedom was fought in neighbouring countries because it was not possible to fight Smith and his criminal cabal inside Rhodesia. That Pastor Mawarire is in America should be a blessing in disguise for all of us peace loving citizens. Most freedom fighters were in America during the bush war of the 1970s.
Dr. Edison Zvobgo, Dr. Christopher Ushewokunze, Dr. Callistas Ndlovu were all in America. Nothing should be surprising that Pastor Evans is in America still fighting for our cause in accordance with the modern methods of fighting repressive regimes. Going back to the bush and fight bush war has long lost its sale by date. The new methods of fighting a government like the one of Robert Mugabe are to starve the system by not feeding it with looted funding borrowed from money lenders. Pastor Mawarire hauchatya and too nesu futi hatichatya. This fearlessness has gone global, is as fresh as when you left your home country for America.
This method of fighting is wholly effective and it is evident on the ground. If they cannot pay those police and the army, let's forget about the teachers, nurses and doctors, then they will fall, they know this too, lucky enough! We still need to see how many times Mugabe is going to fly to Dubai to get money from his private bank to pay off civil servants, there are no revenue incomes from Zimre that can sustain the government spending for more than three months!
Pastor Mawarire, wherever you are, please be proud of what your movement has achieved on the ground. Stay where you are, do not go home yet, it's not yet Uhuru, fight for our Uhuru where you are effectively. We really do not know if you remained in Zimbabwe you will have disappeared long back, harmed, and killed. We need to ask ourselves where Itai Dzamara is today! Zanu PF is a lethal organisation, you did what you thought was right for you and the revolution.
Your access to world leaders and world bodies is very significant indeed. Mr. Stern Zvorwadza please be proud wherever you are, you have done wonders in the new revolution. Mr. Promise Mkhwananzi your courage to face VP Mnangagwa head on is amazing, you are daring and dynamic, sure so many growing citizens will know about your sterling contribution. Our mother Lindas Masarira, please we say "qinisela mama wethu, sekusedhuze laphesiya khona."
However, we are concerned about the brutal beatings of women some of whom had children and babies. Such brutality is despicable, abhorrent and abominable. This is how low this government has sunk. We are really proud to know that there are women movement "Justice for Peace" who have taken the police brutality to task. Ms. Coezette Chirinda, charperson of this organisation, made an excruciating interview; she exposed methods of torture by the police in police custody. It is alleged police demanded the women prisoners to undress and began to beat them n_aked. The pornographic mixture female n_akedness, lust and brutality, but feeding on the n_akedness of the woman under their absolute control and helplessness is what is abominable at best and barbaric but last.
Ms. Chirinda is saying, it seems it is the n_akedness of women that entices the police to demand women to undress and beat them undressed, hence she threatened: if her organisation does not get all the police personal who meted those brutalities to account within seven days, she will rally Harare women and demonstrate n_aked in the streets of Harare. In any conflict indeed it is the women who suffer most, dehumanised most. This evidence of brutality on women is overwhelming in Zimbabwe.
To Ms Linda Masaria I send you this quote: "Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could –by Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum LP
We have achieved a lot the past three months Lets count our blessings and learn to name them one by one, and we shall be surprised what the Lord God has done to us!
#This Flag #Hatichatya #Tajamuka #Asisesabi #Asikijiki
It is time we took stock: what our new revolution has achieved so far. In today' Bulawayo 24 social media, I read three articles written in detail about Pastor Mawarire. One reads: "Mawarire a shame, Mugabe" the other one reads: "This #Flag plot goes up in smoke" the other reads: Mawarire left Zimbabwe under hard-to understand circumstances" on the same page, same day here is a young and dynamic revolutionary written in details. If he was of insignificance nobody would give him such an audience in our daily news.
If there is one person who should be applauded for his bravery to stand against the government of Robert Mugabe and shake it to the core, this earthquake kind scenario, a government that has farted several times because of fear at the mere mention of his name Pastor Mawarire, it is indeed Pastor Mawarire, it is Promise Mkhwananzi, it is Stern Zvorwadza, it is Patson & Itai Dzamara, and indeed the good Lady, our Meme, our mother Zimbabwe: Linda Masarira who is still languishing in prison for sixty straight days. She has to be imprisoned because of the power she resonates and the government is farting scared of her, scared of the power of this woman called Linda.
We need to take stock of what has been achieved in this fresh revolution by the brave people on the ground and we give thanks for the change that they have started, it will never stop until we get our freedom. How long it will take, should not be the issue but that change has been ignited, that it has started is our blessing, we have been given the strength the gut to dare it, with all the brutal consequences it entails. The politics of Zimbabwe has changed it will never be the same until the masses get what they want: freedom from oppression of blacks by blacks.
Firstly, it was Stern Zvorwadza who staged a demonstration inside Rainbow Towers, was sent to remand prison, was beaten several times; he went back to the hotel again without fear of brutal assaults on him, demanded the evacuation of VP Phelekezela Mphoko; he must vacate the hotel where he has been squatting for more than 500 days on the row fleecing the treasury US$ 1000.00 a day. Yes we can proudly say that the pressure that Comrade Stern Zvorwadza put on the government was wholly effective, and indeed the VP himself was shamed to the extent of leaving the hotel at once. He left the hotel Sheraton in absolute shame and disgrace.
Thank you Stern Zvorwadza for you absolute courage that brought change to a lunatic asylum kind of lifestyle at the detriment of the most vulnerable in the country. Here is some irresponsible man made politician, is father and grand-father but cannot empathize with the country-wide poverty experienced in the land, instead he thinks about himself and his immediate family, goes on to distribute chickens to chosen ones as his empowerment program for Mathebeleland! My foot!
Then after Pastor Ewan Mawarire staged a shut down that was successful followed by many others country-wide. This action call coincided with the non payment of civil servants. Revolution are always a combination of many social dissatisfactions in the society, all those ills combined gave a scare on the government, the government responded by paying the civil servants earlier than the stipulated time frames previously given. Instead of being ashamed of themselves, they went on to imprison Pastor Mawarire on fabricated charges that failed to realize a genuine court case. He was set free because the government was scared of the dire consequences of what would happen if he was sent to prison. Pastor Mawarire removed fear from the peoples of Zimbabwe. Hatichatya zvemene.
This #Flag movement is now a global movement for all. Many citizens are talking all their frustration with our Zimbabwean flag flung on their necks, using their voices through the power of the media to send their voices to all citizens at home and in transition. Citizens all over the world have found their voice to talk about the ills of the Zanu PF government without fear. Those voices have become one collective voice that is saying enough is enough: #Hatichatya, #Asisesabi #Tajamuka Asikijiki!
We thank Pastor Mawarire for removing fear in our lives and we begin to talk, we have begun to act because someone removed that fear that has kept us in a trance for 36 years in a row. The peoples of all ethnic groups in Zimbabwe will indeed come together and find one another as they have identified the devil in the making that was hidden in "tribalism." Tribalism has been a weapon of repression by Zanu since independence. Both peoples, lucky enough, have realised that all ethnic groupings are casualties of Zanu PF. Tribalism was used for a long time as cover and if we are not careful, it this very tribalism that will devour our new dawn of independence from the black rule, repressive rule, brutal and shameless in its dealings and lootings.
Thirdly, thanks to so many people, home and abroad in the Diaspora who spoke to the money lending countries never to extend financial AID to current Zimbabwe government until conditions related to reforms are implemented. Only then can a new dispensation a new Zimbabwe government find the financial assistance on realistic terms. We feared that the very AID will be looted as the government is aware of the fact that its game-over with them, time is up for Zanu PF. They were sincerely banking on that bailout to loot for the last time and run away with packages of cash to sustain them in their hideouts.
In Bulawayo24 of today 25th September, Finance Minister was quoted as saying: "Zimbabwe must now stand on its own." This is an admission that the bailout was declined by the all money lenders. Instead they put conditions attached to bailing out the regime: "please reform economically, political, electoral etc. We thank the people of Zimbabwe and all pressure groups that worked hard to make this appeal on lender institutions and has been a grand success. We saw too the power of demonstration that was staged by Zimbabweans living in the UK, how they went to demonstrate at number 10 Downing Street and successfully sent a petition to the new British Prime Minister Ms. Teresa May. We say thank you to Mr. Elliot Pfebve the MDC-T representative in the UK branch for his sterling contribution to highlight our cause.
Dear Zimbabweans, we have achieved a lot indeed, we should be grateful about what has been possible under those most brutal circumstances. Pastor Mawarire was right inside the General Assembly and gave in his petition on our behalf. He is working day and night silently but effectively. We should remember too that our struggle for freedom was fought in neighbouring countries because it was not possible to fight Smith and his criminal cabal inside Rhodesia. That Pastor Mawarire is in America should be a blessing in disguise for all of us peace loving citizens. Most freedom fighters were in America during the bush war of the 1970s.
Dr. Edison Zvobgo, Dr. Christopher Ushewokunze, Dr. Callistas Ndlovu were all in America. Nothing should be surprising that Pastor Evans is in America still fighting for our cause in accordance with the modern methods of fighting repressive regimes. Going back to the bush and fight bush war has long lost its sale by date. The new methods of fighting a government like the one of Robert Mugabe are to starve the system by not feeding it with looted funding borrowed from money lenders. Pastor Mawarire hauchatya and too nesu futi hatichatya. This fearlessness has gone global, is as fresh as when you left your home country for America.
This method of fighting is wholly effective and it is evident on the ground. If they cannot pay those police and the army, let's forget about the teachers, nurses and doctors, then they will fall, they know this too, lucky enough! We still need to see how many times Mugabe is going to fly to Dubai to get money from his private bank to pay off civil servants, there are no revenue incomes from Zimre that can sustain the government spending for more than three months!
Pastor Mawarire, wherever you are, please be proud of what your movement has achieved on the ground. Stay where you are, do not go home yet, it's not yet Uhuru, fight for our Uhuru where you are effectively. We really do not know if you remained in Zimbabwe you will have disappeared long back, harmed, and killed. We need to ask ourselves where Itai Dzamara is today! Zanu PF is a lethal organisation, you did what you thought was right for you and the revolution.
Your access to world leaders and world bodies is very significant indeed. Mr. Stern Zvorwadza please be proud wherever you are, you have done wonders in the new revolution. Mr. Promise Mkhwananzi your courage to face VP Mnangagwa head on is amazing, you are daring and dynamic, sure so many growing citizens will know about your sterling contribution. Our mother Lindas Masarira, please we say "qinisela mama wethu, sekusedhuze laphesiya khona."
However, we are concerned about the brutal beatings of women some of whom had children and babies. Such brutality is despicable, abhorrent and abominable. This is how low this government has sunk. We are really proud to know that there are women movement "Justice for Peace" who have taken the police brutality to task. Ms. Coezette Chirinda, charperson of this organisation, made an excruciating interview; she exposed methods of torture by the police in police custody. It is alleged police demanded the women prisoners to undress and began to beat them n_aked. The pornographic mixture female n_akedness, lust and brutality, but feeding on the n_akedness of the woman under their absolute control and helplessness is what is abominable at best and barbaric but last.
Ms. Chirinda is saying, it seems it is the n_akedness of women that entices the police to demand women to undress and beat them undressed, hence she threatened: if her organisation does not get all the police personal who meted those brutalities to account within seven days, she will rally Harare women and demonstrate n_aked in the streets of Harare. In any conflict indeed it is the women who suffer most, dehumanised most. This evidence of brutality on women is overwhelming in Zimbabwe.
To Ms Linda Masaria I send you this quote: "Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could –by Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum LP
We have achieved a lot the past three months Lets count our blessings and learn to name them one by one, and we shall be surprised what the Lord God has done to us!
#This Flag #Hatichatya #Tajamuka #Asisesabi #Asikijiki
Source - Nomazulu Thata
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